《Ragged Old Flag》歌词

[00:00:00] Ragged Old Flag (background music - Shenandoah) (arr. M. Brown and F. Ticheli) - Michael Dudley/United States Army Chorus/United States Army Band/Studio conductor

[00:00:01] Written by：Johnny Cash/Frank Ticheli

[00:00:44] I walked through a county courthouse square

[00:00:48] On a park bench an old man was sittin' there

[00:00:52] I said your old court house is

[00:00:55] Kinda run down

[00:00:58] He said naw it'll do for our little town

[00:01:03] I said your old flag pole is leaned a little bit

[00:01:08] And that's a ragged old flag

[00:01:10] You got hangin' on it

[00:01:12] He said have a seat and I sat down

[00:01:18] And decent is this the first time you've

[00:01:21] Been to our little town

[00:01:24] I said I think it is

[00:01:27] He said I don't like to brag

[00:01:29] But we're kinda proud of

[00:01:31] That ragged old flag

[00:01:35] You see we got a little hole in that flag there

[00:01:38] When washington took it across the delaware

[00:01:42] And it got powder burned the night francis

[00:01:45] Scott key sat watching it

[00:01:47] Writing say can you see

[00:01:50] And it got a bad rip in new orleans

[00:01:53] With packingham jackson

[00:01:56] Tugging at its seams

[00:01:58] And it almost fell at the alamo

[00:02:02] Beside the texas flag

[00:02:04] But she waved on though

[00:02:08] She got cut with a sword at chancellorsville

[00:02:12] And she got cut again at shiloh hill

[00:02:17] There was robert e lee

[00:02:18] And beauregard and bragg

[00:02:21] And the south wind blew hard on

[00:02:24] That ragged old flag

[00:02:28] On flanders field in world war 1

[00:02:32] She got a big hole from a bertha gun

[00:02:35] She turned blood red in world war 2

[00:02:39] She hung limp and low a time or two

[00:02:45] She was in korea vietnam

[00:02:48] She went where she was sent

[00:02:50] By her uncle sam

[00:02:52] Lady for Americans brown yellow and white

[00:02:56] Or shed red black for the store and the stress

[00:03:02] In her own good land here she's been abused

[00:03:06] She's been burned dishonored

[00:03:08] Denied an' refused

[00:03:13] And the government for which she stands

[00:03:15] Has been scandalized throughout out the land

[00:03:19] And she's getting thread bare

[00:03:22] And she's wearin' thin

[00:03:24] But she's in good shape for the shape she's in

[00:03:29] Cause she's been through the fire before

[00:03:32] And I believe she can take a whole lot more

[00:03:36] So we raise her up every morning

[00:03:39] And we take her down every night

[00:03:42] We don't let her touch the ground

[00:03:45] And we fold her up right

[00:03:48] On second thought

[00:03:49] I do like to brag

[00:03:52] Cause I'm mighty proud of

[00:03:54] That ragged old flag